New hair doooooo

My best friends dad is the owner of "MAKS" hairdressing in Merchant City, Glasgow. Because I've got longish hair (and don't really care how it looks) he asked me to be a hair model for a colour competition:






I should be able to get a copy of the real ones they sent away later on but thats one i just took myself! Looking rather sorry for myself methinks :P

Athletes....

My weekend, as usual, was one filled with sport and included some athletic people playing!

On Friday night some of the St Silas football team met for dinner and had a chat bout tactics. The food was wonderfully cooked and it was an evening ful-o-banter. Strangely after food the management suggested we went to the pub for a drink! Thankfully this didn't seem to effect our result the next morning when we took on Parkhead: The game finished 6-1! With a slightly depleted side we still won with John Wood and Alan Dock both got two and (if memory serves) Gordon and Ali Morrow getting one each also. Ali also claimed the MOM award which is the least he deserved!

In the afternoon a few of us went to watch the Glasgow Hawks, and more importantly Nick, take on Ayr. They are trialling new rules which are designed to speed the game up. It certainly worked as the game was a lot faster moving! Sadly though it took our lil gang the best part of 70
Do watch to the end! My goodness they are skillful, woah!!!

The end is nigh

It's in the news all the time and my lectures keep telling me that we are all going to die!! If it's not global warming it's Bird flu or another disease or a lack of water or lack of food or insects or a meteor or the old favourite of nuclear war. Looking at the evidence it's all rather damning: the end is nigh; life as we know it is coming to an end....

The other day I was talking to my mate about a program which was looking at a Religions response (or the lack of it) to global warming. Although I didn't see it he mentioned his surprise, and that of the program makers, that "Religion" hasn't jumped on the Global Warming bandwagon saying " Look the earth is coming to an end, repent and be saved". I agreed with him, it seems strange that the more outspoken people, both Christians and those from other religions, haven't mentioned anything about it; seems to go against the stereotype.

Its a subject which I haven't really thought about before: are all these problems pointing towards Jesus second coming? After thinking about it I have to conclude that, since God controls the weather and is all powerful, then, this must be part of his plan. Therefore, yes, if the world is going to change as dramatically as scientists suggest then all these environmental problems could very much tie into Jesus' return! We do though need to remember that through history people have been claiming Jesus is coming "soon" yet God says that we won't know until it happens! Thankfully it's not something which I worry about :) Anyone got any views?


On a different note, I think the fact people haven't mentioned global warming as a sign of the end is a clear indication that Christianity is now so scared to mention what we believe (that those who don't follow have Jesus as there saviour will live eternity without him, hell). Whereas in past centuries an answer was found from the bible and published for the whole world to see! In the 21st century it's politically incorrect to say such things and it seems religion is too worried to mention "Maybe this is God" let alone "Jesus is coming", it breaks my heart and while of course I don't mean people should go about scare mongering about Global Warming and start breaking the law this is just one example of a general trend not to stand up for things.

When the Life of Brian came out 30-40 years ago there was a massive fuss kicked up. That was over a film (which personally I have no problem with) yet now when it comes to much more important issues; like religious freedoms, gay rights and blasphemy (lyrics in songs, for examples) we seem scared even to use our right of free speech to oppose such things!

I've just started reading Acts (a book from the bible) and the difference between the Church then and now is amazing. While of course there any many fearless men and woman in the Christian Church today people like Stephen, John and Peter (just for starters) really show many of us up. I'm just as bad as anyone else and I think that it's because I'm too worried about what other people think. This feeling, though, isn't something which I alone suffer from; do we worry that that if we annoy people God's message won't get through? or is that just an excuse not to talk about our faith? If we take a look at almost all biblical character then we would see how it should be done: Do what God says and not to worry if what you do annoys people because we are here to please God, not others (That doesn't mean going out of our way to annoy others because we are called to love others as ourselves yet).

Christianity needs people to start standing up and proclaiming God "in the temple" like the early church or else we will fall!



On a lighter note I hope you'll enjoy this clip from Mock The Week (episode 2 series 4). A couple of the things this blog is about are loosely related to some of their jokes. BE WARNED this show is on after the watershed; there is a little bit of none politically correct jokes and language:

Mock The Week is fast becoming one of my favourite shows on TV. Please follow this let alone link to see the rest of the episode

God said:


What a calm guy!

Same Jeans

In his new song the dude from the view claims he's had his jeans on for four days!! Maybe he's telling the truth, maybe not?! Either way its a good song (even if they have ripped off "Brimfull of asha on the forty five!")



Whats the longest you've had your jeans on for??? Think my record is nine days.....

Snowboarding

As a Christmas present my parents got my sister, Rachel, and I skiiing and snowboarding lessons! So last Wednesday we headed off to Xcape to learn! This is an example of the sort of stuff we where doing doing:



Snowboarding is brilliant! It's such a satifying sport and I can't wait till the next lesson (though my bank account won't like it)! I was amazed at how frictionless the boards where! Now that might sound silly but just go try it and you'll know what I mean!



How many professional snowboarders like the guy above have knee ligament damage?? When I started out you could feel them straining as I slide around. What if your doing a trick and catch an edge in the snow??


NOTE: The video's are not in the wrong order!

Myspace Laughs

Sorry for not blogging much interesting stuff of late, just had no Internet access! I hope you find this funny!!

When I plugged in the LAN to check emails I logged on Myspace and saw this message:

Anyone else just laughed?? Maybe the church should use this picture as a publicity thing? (I'm Semi-serious!!).


Upon further inspection of the site (www.myspace.com/jesus_is_the_real_way) I found that I've been following the wrong God for the last 18 years!! Did you know that Jesus is only 100years old, didn't live in Israel and wasn't a Jew?? According to Jesus he's a Catholic from Italy!!!! Didn't see that one coming did you?